Coding is a very crucial step in a clinic’s revenue cycle process and coders need to keep themselves updated with changing industry regulations and norms to remain competitive. But the question is how? The latest online coding resources offered by the American Medical Association have come as a blessing for the coders by providing electronic […]
ICD-10 Implementation: An update for physicians and coders
The transition to ICD-10 is much more than a mere increase in codes and field sizes. The descriptions of diagnosis codes in ICD-10 may be very different to what coders are used to seeing and using in ICD-9. Therefore, the complexity in transition is significant and shouldn’t be avoided by medical coders. An easier and […]
Assess the capability of your workforce: Is your clinic administration in the right hands?
The capability of your workforce as a physician is directly impacted by the number of people you hire and the efficiency of the staff. Ideally every business entity needs to find the right balance between the number of people employed and the profits or revenue that they help generate. This factor along with the efficiency […]
Towards Realizing Medical Data Integration Nationally
The benefits of Integrating Medical Data nationally can be far-reaching. Given its multi-applicability, Macro-level Medical Integration Of Data can enable enhanced medical service and cost-efficiency, privacy compliance as per HIPAA, transparent billing and coding as per CPT, ICD-9, & HCPCS procedures, ready availability of health data for numerous references and verifications, advanced clinical research with […]